If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

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The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse...

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse...

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised...

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised...

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit....

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit....

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God...

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God...

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

Everyone has an equal right to inequality.

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse...

The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse...

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance....

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance....

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value.

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk...

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk...